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"Filmmaker Herzog draws on the true story of a Japanese officer who patrolled the Filipino jungle for nearly three decades after WWII, unaware the war had ended"--

2) Land of love and drowning: a novel

Author

Yanique, Tiphanie

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" A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of...

3) Gulliver's travels

Author

Swift, Jonathan

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The unusual voyages of Englishman Lemuel Gulliver carry him to such strange locales as Lilliput, where the inhabitants are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a nation ruled by horses.

4) Gather the daughters: a novel

Author

Melamed, Jennie

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A smoldering debut about an insular community on an island at the end of the world and the girls who start to question the rules that bind them.

5) The lighthouse

Author

James, P. D

Publisher

Distributed by Random House

Pub. Date

c2005

6) The engagement party: a novel

Author

Kane, Darby

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Twelve years after the death of a fellow student and the suicide of a quiet loner, college friends, linked to these past events, gather together to celebrate an engagement but are soon targeted by a killer who demands they tell the truth.

7) The poison season

Author

Rutherford, Mara

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Betraying her family, her best friend, and her whole community by saving a young outsider from drowning in the poisonous lake that protects her island home, Leelo nurses Jaren back to health, understanding that discovery could lead to unthinkable consequences for both of them.

8) Bad men

Author

Connolly, John

Series

A Joe Dupree thriller

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Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook

Years after the massacre that wiped out a colony of settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary, rookie officer Sharon Macy and policeman Joe Dupree team up to protect the island's residents from a band of vengeful killers.

9) And then there were none

Author

Christie, Agatha

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Ten houseguests, trapped on an isolated island, are the prey of a diabolical killer. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion: Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine ... When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale?

10) The unfinished land

Author

Bear, Greg

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"A sweeping Elizabethan historical fantasy from an internationally renowned author that evokes the seafaring adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson with the magic of The Bear and the Nightingale"--

11) Death of the party: a death on demand mystery

Author

Hart, Carolyn G

Publisher

William Morrow

Pub. Date

c2005

12) Resort to murder: a Henrie O mystery

Author

Hart, Carolyn G

Publisher

Thorndike Press

Pub. Date

2001

13) Deep water

Author

Bamford, Emma

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Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, a captain discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife, who describes how their exotic trip to a tiny, remote island forced her to become a murderer.

14) The insatiable Volt sisters

Author

Moulton, Rachel Eve

Publisher

MCD x FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

2023.

Description

"Two sisters must reckon with family history on the mysterious island that is their ancestral home in this new horror novel from the author of Tinfoil Butterfly"--

15) Dawnshard

Author

Sanderson, Brandon

Series

Stormlight archive volume 3.5

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When a ghost ship is discovered near the stormy island Akinah, Navani Kholin sends an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands.

16) House of salt and sorrows

Author

Craig, Erin A

Publisher

Delacorte Press

Pub. Date

[2019]

Description

On a remote island estate, Annaleigh Thaumas, the sixth-born of twelve sisters, enlists the aid of an alluring stranger to unravel the family curse before it claims her life.

17) The depths

Author

Lesperance, Nicole

Publisher

Razorbill

Pub. Date

2022.

Description

After suffering a near-fatal freediving accident, seventeen-year-old Addie Spencer tags along on her mother's honeymoon to a private island where she unearths dark secrets--a child ghost, moody flowers, and a deep pool where no one feels pain--before realizing the island might not be willing to let her go.

18) The island of lost girls: a novel

Author

Marwood, Alex

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Desperately searching for her seventeen-year-old daughter Gemma, Robin is led to La Kastellana, a place of sun-drenched glamor and obscene wealth, where someone is waiting for the right moment to expose the dark truth of what really happens on the island of lost girls.

19) Lost in Bermooda

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"Bermooda is a tropical island that is full of walking, talking cows. Here in Bermooda the sun is perfectly bright and the breeze is perfectly warm. It's the kind of perfection that makes it seem like nothing in this mootopian paradise could ever change. But when a hu'man washes ashore, everything changes!"--from publisher's description.

20) The lost prince

Author

Myklusch, Matt

Series

Seaborne volume 1

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Book, eBook

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